As the winds die down and firefighters seize control of the deadly infernos that have scorched more than 60 square miles, Los Angeles faces an unimaginable task before anyone can rebuild: Cleaning up ...

President Donald Trump has spoken several times this week about the ongoing ecological disaster in the Potomac River.

Ten years to the day after Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, experts say cleaning up the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors will still take another 30 years. The plant's owner, ...

Economic, governmental, environmental, and community interests often end up just as tangled as debris in the wake of a storm. Margie Huggins has spent her retirement tending her parents’ farm in ...

Today, severe natural disasters can seem like a common occurrence in our world. In 2022, there were 18 U.S. natural disasters that cost at least one billion dollars in damages and repairs, according ...

A resident just manages to drive under downed utility poles and wires in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, USVI, on Sept. 15, 2017, after Hurricane Irma struck. (FEMA/K.C. Wilsey) At the scene of a ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It was produced by Grist, co-published with The Daily Yonder, ...